Senior Test Analyst Contracts in England

Senior Test Analyst
UK > England

The median Senior Test Analyst daily rate in England is £445 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 31 May 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
31 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 487 579 721
Rank change year-on-year +92 +142 -91
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Test Analyst 56 59 60
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.15% 0.12% 0.085%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.16% 0.13% 0.089%
Number of daily rates quoted 39 55 49
10th Percentile £335 £325 £318
25th Percentile £388 £363 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £445 £475 £425
Median % change year-on-year -6.32% +11.76% -5.56%
75th Percentile £531 £573 £488
90th Percentile £555 £621 £525
UK median daily rate £440 £450 £425
% change year-on-year -2.22% +5.88% +1.49%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £57.50 - -
Median hourly rate £60.00 - -
75th Percentile £62.50 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £60.00 - -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
England

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in England. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in England with a recognized job title 34,161 44,903 67,296
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.76% 94.57% 95.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,530 31,932 48,137
10th Percentile £285 £313 £313
25th Percentile £413 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £530
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +6.11%
75th Percentile £638 £663 £650
90th Percentile £750 £763 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,560 1,303 1,794
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.25 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £20.00 £15.75
Median hourly rate £37.63 £45.00 £23.91
Median % change year-on-year -16.39% +88.21% +11.21%
75th Percentile £61.60 £65.75 £49.25
90th Percentile £74.00 £77.50 £65.00
UK median hourly rate £37.50 £45.00 £24.15
% change year-on-year -16.67% +86.37% +9.75%

Senior Test Analyst
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings that featured Senior Test Analyst in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Senior Test Analyst in England

Senior Test Analyst
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Senior Test Analyst in England.

Daily rate trend for Senior Test Analyst in England

Senior Test Analyst
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Senior Test Analyst in England over the 6 months to 31 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Senior Test Analyst in England

Senior Test Analyst
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Senior Test Analyst in England.

Hourly rate trend for Senior Test Analyst in England

Senior Test Analyst
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Senior Test Analyst within the England region over the 6 months to 31 May 2024. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
London +85 41 £428 -10.47%
Midlands +26 5 £525 +61.54% 1
South East +6 4 £500 +14.29% 2
West Midlands - 4 £525 -
North of England +26 1 £325 -13.33% 2
North West +19 1 £325 -13.33% 2
East Midlands +14 1 - - 1
Senior Test Analyst
UK

Senior Test Analyst Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England

For the 6 months to 31 May 2024, Senior Test Analyst contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the England region featuring Senior Test Analyst in the job title.

1 39 (69.64%) Agile
2 38 (67.86%) Test Automation
3 25 (44.64%) Azure
3 25 (44.64%) Microsoft
3 25 (44.64%) Social Skills
4 23 (41.07%) DevOps
5 22 (39.29%) Selenium
5 22 (39.29%) Azure DevOps
6 19 (33.93%) Performance Testing
7 18 (32.14%) Continuous Integration
7 18 (32.14%) Back Office
7 18 (32.14%) Software Testing
8 17 (30.36%) C#
9 16 (28.57%) Visual Studio
9 16 (28.57%) Scrum
9 16 (28.57%) WebDriver
9 16 (28.57%) Postman
10 15 (26.79%) CI/CD
10 15 (26.79%) .NET
11 13 (23.21%) Functional Testing
11 13 (23.21%) SpecFlow
11 13 (23.21%) Mobile App
11 13 (23.21%) Public Sector
12 12 (21.43%) Non-Functional Testing
12 12 (21.43%) Android
12 12 (21.43%) SQL Server
13 11 (19.64%) .NET Framework
13 11 (19.64%) PowerShell
13 11 (19.64%) Manual Testing
13 11 (19.64%) AngularJS

Senior Test Analyst Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 2 (3.57%) CMS
Applications
1 1 (1.79%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 3 (5.36%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (1.79%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 25 (44.64%) Azure
2 22 (39.29%) Azure DevOps
3 10 (17.86%) Entra ID
4 3 (5.36%) Azure Monitor
4 3 (5.36%) Power Platform
4 3 (5.36%) PowerApps
5 2 (3.57%) dbt
6 1 (1.79%) AWS
6 1 (1.79%) Azure Cosmos DB
6 1 (1.79%) Azure Pipelines
6 1 (1.79%) Azure Service Bus
6 1 (1.79%) BrowserStack
6 1 (1.79%) Commercetools
6 1 (1.79%) Snowflake
6 1 (1.79%) Tricentis Tosca
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.79%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (21.43%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 22 (39.29%) Selenium
2 16 (28.57%) Postman
2 16 (28.57%) Visual Studio
2 16 (28.57%) WebDriver
3 13 (23.21%) SpecFlow
4 7 (12.50%) JIRA
5 4 (7.14%) Appium
5 4 (7.14%) LoadRunner
5 4 (7.14%) Rational Performance Tester
6 2 (3.57%) Cucumber
6 2 (3.57%) JMeter
6 2 (3.57%) Maven
7 1 (1.79%) Git
7 1 (1.79%) SoapUI
7 1 (1.79%) Visual Studio Team System
7 1 (1.79%) Zephyr
General
1 25 (44.64%) Social Skills
2 18 (32.14%) Back Office
3 13 (23.21%) Public Sector
4 6 (10.71%) Finance
5 5 (8.93%) Analytical Skills
6 2 (3.57%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 2 (3.57%) Legal
7 1 (1.79%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (26.79%) .NET
2 11 (19.64%) .NET Framework
2 11 (19.64%) AngularJS
3 10 (17.86%) XML
4 2 (3.57%) ADO
4 2 (3.57%) Gherkin
5 1 (1.79%) .NET Core
5 1 (1.79%) Playwright
5 1 (1.79%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 13 (23.21%) Mobile App
2 10 (17.86%) Product Ownership
3 1 (1.79%) Contactless
3 1 (1.79%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 12 (21.43%) Android
2 1 (1.79%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 39 (69.64%) Agile
2 38 (67.86%) Test Automation
3 23 (41.07%) DevOps
4 19 (33.93%) Performance Testing
5 18 (32.14%) Continuous Integration
5 18 (32.14%) Software Testing
6 16 (28.57%) Scrum
7 15 (26.79%) CI/CD
8 13 (23.21%) Functional Testing
9 12 (21.43%) Non-Functional Testing
10 11 (19.64%) Manual Testing
11 10 (17.86%) Acceptance Criteria
11 10 (17.86%) API Testing
11 10 (17.86%) B2C
12 9 (16.07%) Test Strategy
13 6 (10.71%) Problem-Solving
13 6 (10.71%) Stakeholder Management
14 5 (8.93%) SDLC
14 5 (8.93%) Test Management
14 5 (8.93%) Test Planning
Programming Languages
1 17 (30.36%) C#
2 11 (19.64%) Kotlin
2 11 (19.64%) PowerShell
3 4 (7.14%) Python
3 4 (7.14%) SQL
4 3 (5.36%) Java
5 2 (3.57%) JavaScript
6 1 (1.79%) Bicep
6 1 (1.79%) C
6 1 (1.79%) Scala
6 1 (1.79%) VB
6 1 (1.79%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 3 (5.36%) Degree
2 1 (1.79%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (1.79%) ISEB
2 1 (1.79%) ISTQB
2 1 (1.79%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
2 1 (1.79%) SC Cleared
2 1 (1.79%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (7.14%) QA
2 3 (5.36%) Accessibility
3 2 (3.57%) PCI DSS
4 1 (1.79%) WCAG
System Software
1 10 (17.86%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (1.79%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 25 (44.64%) Microsoft
2 5 (8.93%) HP
3 4 (7.14%) IBM
3 4 (7.14%) SAP
4 3 (5.36%) Ariba
5 2 (3.57%) Aderant
6 1 (1.79%) Dataiku
6 1 (1.79%) Micro Focus